Dr. McGeeney's CEO Report: Leadership and the corner drug store
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TransforMED CEO Dr. Terry McGeeney urges primary care providers to learn and adopt leadership and communication best practices, noting that "the recently completed TransforMED National Demonstration Project shows quite clearly that the two greatest vulnerabilities for practices seeking to become Patient Centered Medical Homes are lack of leadership and lack of communication." Read Dr. McGeeney's CEO Report » |
FOCUS ON LEADERSHIP & COMMUNICATION
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Leadership Excellence
A TransforMED Workingpaper
By Practice Enhancement Facilitator Barbara Johnson, PhD
Strong and effective leadership is a skill that almost anyone can put into practice by learning the five, basic core competencies of physician leadership. Download PDF. |
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Office Leaders Dictate Office Attitude
A TransforMED Workingpaper
By Practice Enhancement Facilitator David Garrett, MHA
Have you ever wondered to yourself, "What happened today that made the office run so well?" or "Today was such a light day, why did everything seem to go wrong?" Often times, you need look no further than the mirror! Download PDF.
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Ex Libris TMED: Becoming a Better Leader
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TransforMED Executive Director Marly McMillen comments on what primary care leaders can learn from Marshall Goldsmith's book What Got you Here, Won't Get you There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful! McMillen extracts a "hit list" of 20 ineffective behaviors that should be eliminated by every effective leader. Compare your leadership style to these bad habits and learn what you can STOP doing in order to become a better leader. Read the book commentary » |
Life is like a box of chocolates...
You never know what you're going to get
Surprisingly Simple Improvement Tips from NDP Practices
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One of the most popular activities at the recent Learning Collaborative was the Box of Chocolates-- an opportunity for the participants in the National Demonstration Project to share their "tips and tricks."
These are quick tips from the actual experiences of National Demonstration Project providers and PMs "in the trenches" -- a scannable "lunchtime reading" list of easy and inexpensive things you can do TODAY to increase productivity, team communication and motivation, patient satisfaction and more.
Read this fun and useful article -- and be sure to bookmark it! »
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TransforMED's MHIQ now offers NCQA conversion tool
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TransforMED's Medical Home IQ -- a new, Web-based self-assessment tool for primary care practices seeking to become Medical Homes -- now offers an MHIQ-to-NCQA PPC-PCMH™ conversion tool.
Find out more about this helpful tool »
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Practice-Based Research:
A Vital Part of the Transformation of Family Medicine
A TransforMED Workingpaper
By Qualitative Data Analyst Elizabeth E. Stewart, PhD, CSCS
Participation in a practice based research network allows family medicine physicians to play a vital role in both the development and integration of evidence-based medicine-- expanding the possibilities for improvement beyond the individual practice. Click here to download the PDF.
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